The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess | Expected publication: July 9th 2019 by Henry Holt and Co.| 256 Pages | Goodreads
✅ REVIEW
Absolutely mesmerizing and engaging. I loved every page of this novel.
This book made me yearn for a place I’ve never been to, and a time in the publishing industry I did not live. It’s emotional and easy to read, the pages flew by. I did not care as much about the plot as I did about the characters. Think late 1980s, New York, Cape Cod, summer, publishing, books, and growing up. Romance? maybe but this is much more than that.
Absolutely loved it and highly recommend it.
Received ARC from the publisher via Netgalley
✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
“A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod.
In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant brother. With her professional ambitions floundering, Eve jumps at the chance to attend an early summer gathering at the Cape Cod home of famed New Yorker writer Henry Grey and his poet wife, Tillie. Dazzled by the guests and her burgeoning crush on the hosts’ artistic son, Eve lands a new job as Henry Grey’s research assistant and an invitation to Henry and Tillie’s exclusive and famed “Book Party”— where attendees dress as literary characters. But by the night of the party, Eve discovers uncomfortable truths about her summer entanglements and understands that the literary world she so desperately wanted to be a part of is not at all what it seems.
A page-turning, coming-of-age story, written with a lyrical sense of place and a profound appreciation for the sustaining power of books, The Last Book Party shows what happens when youth and experience collide and what it takes to find your own voice.
✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
ARC, ebook